Smart recorder disk thrash

I am in the process of digitising my LP collection using Smart recorder. After about 5 or 6 minutes recording the disk starts thrashing and the recording of that track is spoilt. The thrashing lasts for about 0 seconds. I have a Dell 4700 and initially it had 500MB RAM, I have since added an additional GB taking it up to .5GB RAM. There is over 00GB free disk space and loads of virtual memory. I have checked the Task manager and it is only using about 300MB of RAM any way. The thrashing doesn't happen every time and in most cases I can just re-record the spoiled track and after the recording is segmented I can just substitute the spolied track, but I can't do this when the first track is longer than 5 minutes.
I suspect it may be a limitation in the Smart recorder software.
Does anybody know about this and is there a solution?

I don?t have a problem with disk space, my hard disk is 50 gigabytes with over 00 gigabytes of free space. That?s about 30% utilisation.
I did some investigation using task manager to check on memory usage and to see what processes were running when the disk was thrashing. The process was DFRGNTFS. I then searched the Internet and found this thread
http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=398955
the last post by Roachware was quite informati've even though my problem only lasted for 0 seconds maximum and it didn?t fully explain what was triggering it. I also found some threads that explain how to disable the de-fragger but I haven?t tried them yet.
I have also been experimenting with recording levels, there is one album that has a ?noise? problem even though the levels don?t go into the red. I recorded the album seven times with the level ranging from 90% down to 30%. Bizarrely, as the levels went down the thrashing problem became less. I tried recording a different album four times with the recording level ranging from 90% down to 30% and the same symptoms manifested. The size of the files for each recorded album were the same, no matter what recording level was used.
Why should recording level affect the de-fragger if the file sizes are the same?

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1. Product Name: HP Pavilion DV6-3150 us
2. Operating System - Windows 7
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4. Any changes made to your system before the issue occurred:
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in the background especially lots of scvhost.exe. Tried some
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